VLC for Android

Videolabs

About this app

VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as discs, devices, and network streaming protocols.

This is the port of VLC media player to the Android™ platform. VLC for Android can play any video and audio files, as well as network streams, network shares and drives, and DVD ISOs, like the desktop version of VLC.

VLC for Android is a full audio player, with a complete database, an equalizer and filters, playing all weird audio formats.

VLC is intended for everyone, is totally free, has no ads, no in-app-purchases, no spying and is developed by passionate volunteers. All the source code is available for free.


Features
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VLC for Android™ plays most local video and audio files, as well as network streams (including adaptive streaming), DVD ISOs, like the desktop version of VLC. It also support disk shares.

All formats are supported, including MKV, MP4, AVI, MOV, Ogg, FLAC, TS, M2TS, Wv and AAC. All codecs are included with no separate downloads. It supports subtitles, Teletext and Closed Captions.

VLC for Android has a media library for audio and video files, and allows to browse folders directly.

VLC has support for multi-track audio and subtitles. It supports auto-rotation, aspect-ratio adjustments and gestures to control volume, brightness and seeking.

It also includes a widget for audio control, supports audio headsets control, cover art and a complete audio media library.


Permissions
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VLC for Android needs access to those categories:
• "Photos/Media/Files" to read your all media files :)
• "Storage" to read your all media files on SD cards :)
• "Other" to check network connections, change the volume, set the ringtone, run on Android TV and display the popup view, see below for details.

Permission Details :
• It needs "read the contents of your USB storage", in to order to read your media files on it.
• It needs "modify or delete the contents of your USB storage", in order to allow deletion of files and store subtitles.

• It needs "full network access", to open network and internet streams.
• It needs "prevent phone from sleeping" in order to prevent... your phone from sleeping when watching a video.
• It needs "change your audio settings", in order to change audio volume.
• It needs "modify system settings", in order to allow you to change your audio ringtone.
• It needs "view network connections" in order to monitor whether device is connected or not.
• It needs "draw over other apps" to start the custom picture-in-picture widget.
• It needs "control vibration" to give feedback on the controls.
• It needs "run at startup" to set recommendations on Android TV launcher screen, only used on Android TV devices.
• It needs "microphone" to provide voice search on Android TV devices, only asked on Android TV devices.

Ratings and reviews

Don't know if this only works for me or will help anyone that is having trouble getting into 4x speed. I use the slider to go to 4.03 then I use the left arrow to go back to 4x speed and it always seems to work. I usually do it while it's playing but it does seem to work when paused as well. If this helps anyone I'm glad because I hated the problems of getting into 4x myself until I figured this out. I love using this over any other apps I've tried for my audio files.

I'm a long time fan of VLC. I don't know why the controls were changed. I have figured it out, though. If you want to play all the audio on your phone, continuously, go to the first song, hit the 3 dot options, then play all. or make a playlist. not quite the most convenient methods. It was kind of like unlocking an Easter Egg. lol I still love this app though. Great work, guys.

Love it, I've been able to use it with my Subaru's interface to listen to the music files downloaded on my Samsung phone. I love the ability to shuffle play all my music or select an album from my vehicle's console. I also like the safety feature with the cooldown for when the car is running, too. One thing I want to see added is the ability to manually import album covers. Some of my music albums have their covers, but some do not. It would be nice if I could upload them to the folder myself.

What’s new

* Equalizer fixes
* Remote access: allow playing audio media in the browser
* Add back the deletion for multiple file sin the browser
* Update the remote access OTP code length
* Improve the feedback UI
* Add more size options for the subtitle size
* Crash fixes